[PDF] The Damned Art Rle Witchcraft eBook

Author : Sydney Anglo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1136732063

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This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts – published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America – setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.

Author : Geoffrey Robert Quaife
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1136740252

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Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs. This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another.

Author : R. T. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1136739971

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Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft.

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 113674018X

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This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.

Author : William Perkins
Publisher : Puritan Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 193746699X

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Working from the text of Exodus 22:18, "Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live," Perkins delivers one of the most penetrating discourses on the subject of the devil, witchcraft and the occult in its various forms. He sets forth this treatise showing that witchcraft was a common sin in his own day, and it is, no doubt, a common sin in our day. He demonstrates the diverse ways that Satan uses witchcraft in its various forms, and shows how people of all kinds can be involved in the occult, either by entering into a covenant with Satan willfully, or they may enter into a league with Satan unintentionally, through superstition. He covers four main points: 1) What witchcraft is, 2) What is the ground of the practice of witchcraft, 3) How many kinds and differences there are of witchcraft, and 4) Its punishment. This is a powerful, biblical exposition of the Law of God and its application concerning this topic. This is not a scan or a facsimile, but a newly typeset work updated and made easily readable, with an active table of contents.